A review by maree_k
Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness by Alva Noë
4.0
Noe raises some interesting points, but overall his arguments did not convince me - possibly because at the end of each chapter he would write something like,'so now I've explained this so clearly how can you disagree'.
A big issue for me is that he didn't clearly define consciousness. Also, he wrote a fair bit about vision but it didn't really seem to marry up with his contention. I'd like to take Sacks' The Mind's Eye and compare it with Noe's arguments and see what I can make of it.
An interesting book and in some ways his idea that consciousness is out of our bodies makes sense, especially if you look at neurological development from a neuroconstructivist perspective, but ultimately his arguments are, for me, unconvincing.
A big issue for me is that he didn't clearly define consciousness. Also, he wrote a fair bit about vision but it didn't really seem to marry up with his contention. I'd like to take Sacks' The Mind's Eye and compare it with Noe's arguments and see what I can make of it.
An interesting book and in some ways his idea that consciousness is out of our bodies makes sense, especially if you look at neurological development from a neuroconstructivist perspective, but ultimately his arguments are, for me, unconvincing.